Experiences with

Willow Bark

I currently take a white willow bark supplement instead of aspirin for blood thinning. I take a supplement of hawthorn to stabilize my blood pressure, and a supplement of burdock root and vitamin D3 to support overall health and the immune system. All of this is working well at the moment.

We were both invited to go to Brazil to look at, and discuss with their Air Force, what to do with an old aircraft like the one we both work on, voluntarily, here. I cannot go because I would have to have a yellow fever vaccine, which is "live". This would have been the trip of a lifetime. I hope that

Trihexyphenidyl (Artane)Chemotherapy and hormonal medicines: Antiandrogens (Casodex, Flutamide, Nilutamide) Busulfan (Myleran) Cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan) Ketoconazole LHRH agonists (Lupron, Zoladex) LHRH antagonist (Firmagon) Other medicines: Aminocaproic acid (Amicar) Atropine Clofibrate (Atromid-S

Has anyone had Eustachian Tube Dysfunction diagnosed as a cause of tinnitus? Via a very long route I have finally got into a hospital (community ENT were, to be frank, useless). I've had the scary things excluded via CT and MRI and the working diagnosis is now Eustachian Tube Dysfunction. At the moment

Hi all, Just wondering if the Trionic Veloped is right for people with SCA whose main concern is stability due to severe balance issues? I was diagnosed decades ago with SCA15 and while for many many years I have been largely ignored by the medical profession because once diagnosed there was very little

Hello everyone, Has anyone found Nifedipine or Minitran patches helpful for Raynaud's? And if you are using these, do you experience really bad side effects? 💚

As a follow up to a recent post on high intensity training I forgot to add one important point i have been working on with my sports nutritionist - supplements. Like all the well informed souls here who no doubt are regularly taking their magnesium glycinate, choline/inositol, B complex and high strength

Hello I was wondering if anybody here could just give me some insight I have systemic lupus and secondary sjorgrens with hypermobility syndrome I had a barium swallow five years ago and the barium took four hours to go through which showed slow transit sclerodoma dysmotality and pseudo succulation

Hi this follows problems with areas of skin on my face which I just wonder is a side effect of my RA medications as it’s due to sun damaged skin and I’ve always worn sun screen!! Am aware that some medications increase your sensitivity to the uv rays of the sun anybody else have this skin problem ?

Hi I am 8mths post operation, chemo. In August I started to get discomfort occasionally when eating, then acid reflux and regurgitation. I was referred for an endoscopy and possible dilation. 4 weeks ago endoscopy preformed, not able to have dilation as to much food present from 24hrs before. Another

Hi Just been prescribed eff NAC to replace carbocysteine .. just wondering if this works almost straight away or do I have to run with the carbocysteine in tandem for a short while? Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated 🙏

Hi...I've posted before about my husband whose had severe tinnitus and hyperacusis, following a 12 mth battle for help a CT scan showed problem in left ear which was where predominantly tinnitus was. Hyperacusis that bad couldn't go out house. He had exploratory op on Wednesday and a tympanoplasty was

Hello everyone! I will be grateful if you share your experience of combining anesthetics and Jakavi. I have myelofibrosis and take Jakavi 15 mg 2 times a day. I will have an open surgery for an inguinal hernia with anesthesia with novocaine (procaine) very soon. I wanted to see if there is an interaction

Hi, This is my first post, so please strap in, or skip to where I mention SSRIs (in bold) as I really would like input :) My tinnitus (T) in both ears started after playing a gig where the monitoring on stage was too loud at the end of August. Perhaps as a psychological reaction, I developed hyperacusis

Although I have severe copd ,my rheaumy specialists team were reluctant to give me Adalimumab fear of chest infections ,but have now give it the go ahead the firt lot will be delivered tomorrow wondering if anyone else uses this medication who has copd, if so has it affected there chest

hi everyone My doctor what me on trazodone for help with anxiety and sleep. I started on 50mg and from the very first tablet I noticed my T was louder and became very reactive to sound (it was already reactive) but it seemed worse. I told the doctor and they said to carry on with it as it takes time

Hello friends - Continuing on my quest to help improve my tinnitus , I came across this article - https://lifewellmd.com/benfotiamine-tinnitus-the-connection/ An interesting read - and introduced me to a supplement I hadn't heard of - Benfotiamine - a B1 vitamin. Further reading showed me that some

I had a Liver transplant in 2019 and recovered well. I have travelled to Europe and the States since, however, I need to visit family in The Gambia with all the vaccines that entails. Has anyone post Liver transplant got experience of not having the live Yellow Fever vaccine and travelling to The Gambia

Hi all, thank you for your support this morning.Just got back from A&E they were very good sent me to urgent care department not much waiting doc examined my temples which were more painful than I thought but due to red tape the A&E no longer take bloods but he will contact the doctors who deal with

Hi, I've had tinnitus constantly since 23.12.23 and hyperacusis. Was told yesterday that my HA bungalow is having new roof fitted soon and I have to stay in it whilst work is being done along with my 4 small dogs. I get migraine, usually/often weekly (on a Weds/Thurs) and am very unwell with Long Covid